Millennium director

At the beginning of the movie, the first shot is of Liu Yifei wearing a Han lady's dress, chasing butterflies in a large black and red courtyard.

There is no doubt that this is the heroine of this movie, Cai Wenji.

At this time, two lines of bilingual subtitles appeared in the blank space of the screen: Cai Wenji - 16 years old.

As the subtitles gradually fade away, the story officially begins.

Cai Wenji is an epitome of the tragic women in the troubled times of the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

She was born into a scholarly family. Her father was Cai Yong, a great writer at that time. She received a good education since childhood and had high attainments in calligraphy, literature, and music. She could play the piano at the age of nine. She has become a talented woman who is famous far and wide.

However, as a small blue flower bloomed on the screen, fate began to play tricks on this talented woman.

Blue is melancholy and represents her wandering fate. The blue flowers represent despair and are also a metaphor for her tragic life.

At the age of 16, she married Wei Zhongdao, a talented man from the Wei family of a wealthy family in Hedong.

This marriage was originally a good match, but Cai Wenji, who got married in a hurry, also enjoyed a harmonious newlywed life.

Well, the actor who plays Wei Zhongdao is Chen Xingxu, an actor from the Light and Shadow Era. He is a handsome guy and is indeed a pleasure to watch.

However, the good times did not last long. Less than a year after their wedding, her husband Wei Zhongdao died.

Although he was not under the influence of feudal ethics at that time, his husband's family also had suspicions about Wen Ji Kefu.

Because she had no children, the newly widowed Wenji had to return to her home.

She was not yet 17 years old when she became a widow.

When Wenji was sent back to Cai's house, the "happiness" foreshadowed in the first twenty minutes of the movie came to an abrupt end, and the story began to slide into tragedy.

In the troubled times of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, many things were beyond our control.

A few years after Cai Wenji became a widow, her father Cai Yong was thrown into prison by Situ Wang Yun because he sympathized with Dong Zhuo, who had been kind to him. He eventually died tragically. Her mother also died not long after, leaving her without a home. .

The widow has no family to rely on, which is not the worst misfortune.

Because of the rebellion of Dong Zhuo's old tribe, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty asked the Southern Xiongnu to help suppress the rebellion. Unexpectedly, during the melee, the Southern Xiongnu burned, killed and looted in the Central Plains, and the war spread to Cai Wenji's hometown. She was not spared and became a trophy of the Huns. She was carried on the back of a horse to the territory of the crying Huns.

Cai Wenji was regarded as a "trophy" and traveled three thousand miles along the way. When she didn't go well, she was insulted by the Huns with obscene words, beaten with sticks and whips, and threatened with life and death with a machete.

This experience was undoubtedly extremely humiliating and extremely miserable.

In that turbulent and troubled time, women, especially those with both talent and beauty, would never be favored by their fate and would only suffer humiliation. In addition, the Xiongnu had not been educated by the ethics of the Central Plains, making them even more barbaric.

On that desert grassland thousands of miles away from her homeland, the humiliated Cai Wenji couldn't see her hometown, couldn't understand the language, and didn't even have anyone to talk to.

She still survived, gave full play to her musical talent, taught herself the Hujia, and played the Hujia, giving herself hope of living.

Even if the war-torn life crushed the dignity and pride of a generation of talented women, she never truly surrendered.

The suffering inspired her literary and musical creations, leaving a rare cultural wealth in history and blowing a poignant and feminine wind into the "Jian'an style"...

Waiting and waiting, she finally waited until Cao Cao stabilized the regime. When she heard that the daughter of the teacher Cai Yong whom she admired before was living in the southern Huns, she sent an envoy to redeem her.

Facing the two children she gave birth to after being "humiliated", Cai Wenji was very reluctant to let go, but despite the long sandy Huns and the bullying treatment, she still chose to go home.

On the way back to her hometown, she wrote "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" with tears in her eyes, which brought an end to her days in the Huns.

But after returning home, her hometown was destroyed, her parents were dead, and Cai Wenji had no relatives. Cao Cao took pity on Cai Wenji's situation and remarried her to Chen Liu and Dong Si.

If Wenji was ten years younger and had not been captured by the Huns, she and Dong Si would be a good match.

Dong Si and Wen Ji were from the same hometown and had many things in common. He was only in his early twenties, well versed in literature and history, and was good at poetry. His position was equivalent to that of a military officer today.

But the reality is that Wen Ji is already in her thirties and is a third-married daughter who has given birth to two children.

Dong Si was forced by Cao Cao's order to marry Cai Wenji, giving her a place to stay and treating her with courtesy, but without any emotion.

Who knows that fate has not stopped playing tricks on Cai Wenji. Within a few years, Dong Si committed a crime and deserved to be executed. Wenji didn't want to lose her husband and her only home.

Regardless of her ladylike demeanor, she ran barefoot to the Prime Minister's Mansion with disheveled hair in the harsh winter and snow to plead for mercy. In exchange for her husband's life, she wrote out her father Cai Yong's book collection from memory.

After losing her husband and father, she was kidnapped to a foreign tribe. Twelve years later, she was rescued and returned home. However, she was separated from her mother and son.

After he came back, he had his third husband, but he still had to go barefoot and with disheveled hair in front of a room full of guests to beg Cao Cao to spare her husband's life.

At this time, she was no longer the talented and blue rose blooming in troubled times, but just a poor person who didn't want to face separation or death again.

At that moment, she was walking barefoot with her hair disheveled, and everyone was moved by her tenacity and courage.

The guests were deeply moved.

Seeing this scene, Cao Cao couldn't help but feel sympathy in his heart.

However, he sighed and said that Dong Si's letter of condemnation had been sent out, so he might not be able to catch up.

Cai Wenji said firmly: "You have many horses and strong soldiers. You only need to choose a fast horse and send a brave soldier to save the situation."

After hearing this, Cao Cao's eyes flashed with approval, and he deeply remembered this woman who had experienced many ups and downs in her life.

In the end, her plea was successful and Dong Si was spared death.

Such a desperate life-saving act melts the heart of even the coldest person.

From then on, Dong Si truly understood Cai Wenji and stayed with her.

Later, the two fell in love, lived in seclusion in Lantian, and had two children.

Even though she married first and fell in love later, Wen Ji finally found her happy home after going through many hardships.

Her life was immersed in the fate of people in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty. She was teased by fate and experienced misfortunes that other people would only experience in several lifetimes. She has the vitality of a weed and the strength that ordinary women don't have. It is this resilience that makes her live a miracle in troubled times.

At the end of the movie, the powerful King Cao Cao of Wei was lying on his death bed, but he still did not forget Cai Wenji, a special and wonderful woman. He praised her for her decisiveness and talent, and the article was written Like moving clouds and flowing water, the sound of the piano is as melodious as the sound from the sky.

As Cao Cao took his last breath, the music of Hujia played and the camera slowly zoomed up.

"Heaven is unkind, so he brings chaos, and the earth is unkind, so I meet at this time. In the day of war, the roads are dangerous, and the soldiers are in exile, so we share the sorrow. The smoke and dust cover the fields, and barbarians are abundant, and the will is good, and integrity and integrity are lost."

The music of "Eighteen Beats of Hujia" written by Cai Wenji resounded inside and outside the hall, drifting towards the setting sun in the distance.

The lights in the screening room of the Cinema Palace came on again.

After more than ten seconds of silence, the roar of applause grew louder and louder, gradually resounding throughout the entire screening hall.

Wu Yuan, who was sitting in the second row, did not join in the applause, but looked at the ending credits that were still playing on the screen with a smile on his face, feeling calm inside.

Everyone in the "Cai Wenji" crew has done their best, and all they have to do is wait for the closing ceremony to begin.

Leave everything to fate! (End of chapter)